Low educational levels predict an increased risk of developing or dying from heart disease and stroke according to the first nationwide study of the link between education and risk of cardiovascular disease.

Coffee can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes – but only filtered coffee, rather than boiled coffee. New research from Chalmers University of Technology and Umeå University, both in Sweden, show that the choice of preparation method influences the health effects of coffee.

Savannah monitor lizards have a unique airflow pattern that is a hybrid of bird and mammal flow patterns, Utah biologists discover.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers. 

Sometimes, the medications needed to function and live a quality life cause side effects that can make life quite uncomfortable.

New study reveals that 90 percent of urban dust comes from dry lakebeds.

A lack of physical activity, a poor diet and too much stress are taking their toll on the health of Canadians, says a new UBC study.

A team of Texas A&M researchers found that spectroscopy may have a new use in food production from the field to the grocery store.

Eight months of daily, afterschool physical activity in previously inactive 8- to 11-year-olds with obesity and overweight improved key measures of their cardiovascular health like good cholesterol levels, aerobic fitness and percent body fat, but didn’t improve others like arterial stiffness, an early indicator of cardiovascular risk, investigators report.

Barbecued, stir-fried or roasted, there’s no doubt that Aussies love their meat.